The Sussex Produce Company, Steyning

I visited the Sussex Produce cafe a month or so ago and was so impressed with the toilets that I borrowed my Dad's phone to take some pictures. Not the greatest photos but you can see what I like - I have a weakness for wicker, and fresh flowers.

Very clean, a nice lamp for lighting, hand towels in a hanging basket, lovely shelves and a big tin bin. It ticked all the boxes.

I also like the big red tractor in the store.

 

L'Oranger, St James, London

I didn't care much for the decor in this place, but I was drinking a bottomless flute of Perrier-Jouët for free, so one mustn't complain. There's a funny article here about a naughty man who didn't pay when he came here, silly man.

WOW the toilets were posh. Molten Brown handwash and moisturiser on each sink (£15 a bottle!) and wicker baskets with individually rolled flannels to dry your hands. I have never seen this in a toilet before, apparently it is common in posher places.....they must do a lot of washing! But I guess it saves having a noisy hand drier or messy paper towels.

Well stocked toilet paper, a lovely aroma of flowers from the HUGE bunch of flowers at the sinks and lots of mirror space for reapplying make-up after a few too many top-ups of champagne.

Very nice, but probably not worth the money you'd pay to eat/drink here.

Wahaca, Soho, London

I feel nervous about giving any toilet a full 5 out of 5 stars, what makes the "perfect" toilet? Surely it's a little bit subjective? Anyway, Wahaca sure is a good-un.

The toilets are unisex, which might put some people off, but I think works well in this instance. Everything was spotlessly clean, even at 10pm after a clearly busy night. The toilets themselves are very spacious, and feel very private, with a large mirror in each one. The hand washing area is very modern and slick, with motion sensor soap & water (the toilet flush is also motion activated) and high powered hand driers which dry your hands super quick. The water from the sink flows to a water feature outside the glass doors of the toilet and the whole design of the space seems to have been considered as much as the restaurant itself.

I had a lovely time here.

Home, Japan

Some of my friends often ask me about the toilets in Japan so here are a couple of photos. It is an electric toilet. So I hope no blackouts. What I think is great about this toilet is how the water runs when it flushes. In most toilets, the flush passage is simply from top to bottom. But on this toilet the hole where the water runs from is on its side. Allowing the water to flow in a circular motion, cleaning the toilet well. There is a panel with many buttons on the wall to work the toilet but I've only used it once.

Beijin

The number of public toilets in Beijin is just impressive and very well maintained. They are of course squatting toilets. Nowadays I prefer it to the sitting ones. At least I don't have to worry about sitting on someone's pee. No doors but you get used to it. I did feel uncomfortable when someone was standing right in front of me waiting. Another time I went to use the reliable public toilet and instead of an actual toilet it was just a stream of water. Without really thinking about it I went into the one upstream so I couldn't do what I went into do and left.

Mongolia

Monglian toilets are often just a hole in the floor. No toilet rolls. Sometimes no doors. Taps with no running water. But Mongolia has so much land and so few people. Unless you are in the city, the toilet is all around you.